Security News > 2020 > November > Trump Fires Head of DHS Election Security Agency
President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired the director of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election.
Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was "Highly inaccurate."
Krebs, a former Microsoft executive, ran the agency, known as CISA, from its creation in the wake of Russian interference with the 2016 election through the November election.
The agency enjoys a good reputation among its core constituency - the state and local election officials who rely on its advice and services at a time of near-constant cyberattack - as well as on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers recently proposed an increase of its annual budget of around $2 billion.
Just before President Barack Obama left office, the U.S. designated election systems as critical national security infrastructure, like dams or power plants, as a result of the interference by Russia, which included the penetration of state elections systems as well as massive disinformation.